Quotes on Curiosity
Searching for other people making connections with the theorists that fascinate me, give me places to call home - like Carl Rogers, Loris Malaguzzi, John Macmurray, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Jerome Bruner, Paolo Freire, Maria Montessori and ‘friends’. Found this nicely presented website on person-centred education - f2be. Here are but two examples… resonating with my own emerging ideas and Freire’s, among others.
The key is curiosity, and it is curiosity, not answers that we model. As we seek to know more about a child, we demonstrate the acts of observing, listening, questioning and wondering. When we are curious about a child’s words and our responses to those words, the child feels respected. The child is respected. “What are the ideas that I have that are so interesting to the teacher? I must be somebody with good ideas.
Vivian Paley
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran